The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-30

ority of the American fashion over the English
method of riding with the knees in the mouth"
1t would be hard on American dudes if the En-
elish fashion should change just after they have
painfully acquiredit
SENATOR LELAND STANFORD is having diff
Guilty in finding a president for his unversi-
ty President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, declined the position. aud recommended
PRESIDENT Carter, OF Williams College. for the
place. President Carter declines to even con-
slider the proposition. There's your friend,
Parson Newman, Mr. Stanford
HERE are some of the names of streets in the
Mexican city of Guadalajara: Street of the
Sacred Heart. Jesus street. Street of the Love
of God. Heart of Jesus street, John the Baptist
street, Blood of Christ street, Crown of Thorns
street. Holy Ghost street, Mother of Christ
street, Body of Christ street, Fifth of May
street, and Street of the Sad Indian.
THAT sweet singer of the far West. Madame
Emma Nevada. and her husband, DR.. Palmer,
have an eight-mo nths-old daughter, who was
born in France Although Emma is an Amer
lean, she has decided to speak only French to
the child The father will speak English, and
the nurse nothing except German. Not soul
will talk to the young one in American.
CLAUS SPREoKLEs, the California sugar king,
recently sailed for Europe. Gossip has it that
he has gone over to keep his eye Queen Kap-
iolani. King Kalakaua owes Spreckles $3.50 00O
and ii Queen kapiolani succeeds in borrowing
money in England, Spreckles will be on hand to
collect his debt. He will have his money
seize the Sandwich Islands mortgage.
SIR WILLIAM GULL is to succeed DIR. Wilson
Fox as physician in ordinary to the Queen.
The salary of this Office is f200 year. The
other physicians-in- ordinary Sir William
Jenner and Sir George Burrows; but DR.. Reid.
who is permanently attached to the court, usual
ly attends the Queen, Sir William Jenner being
only summoned If her Majesty is really i'll.
A cURIoUsLY dressed parsonage is described
Nv in tall
bulky Mexican, with a baby face. IAN
enormous hat. hung with at least hundred dol
lars worth of silver bullion, was armed with
revolver and rife. and had down eacn. seam OF
his trousers row of skulls and cross bones in
solid silver, each skull as big as dollar Ev-
erybody enjoyed the appearance of this splendid
person, and no one more than he himself"
THE value of an actresses jewels seems to huctu-
ate in obedience to an unacknowledged law.
When Lillian Russell appeared IN court TO make
answer to a claim for $500. she testified that her
jewery was worth practically nothing Il have
nothing but paste" she said, with a charming
smile, '.but it is very good paste, for got it in
Paris. and it looks mighty WELL" The earrings,
which have been the envy of a thousand women,
she frankly admitted to be worth about 800
A REMARKABLE literary partnership has been
formed between Julian Hawthorne and Inspector
Thomas Byrne chief of the New York detect
i've bureau. The result will be series of tales
founded on fact, for which Mr. Byrnes will fur
r.
airy workmanship. The stories will doubtless
be OF absorbing intereat. The history of litera-
ture does not furnish instarce of collahora-
ton in fiction which has promised better results
than may expect from Hawthorne and
Byrne.
LOUIS L. LoRILLARD has taken possession of
the magnificent villa at Newport bequeathed to
him by Miss Catherine Wolfe. Since the death
of Miss Wolfe. says Harper's Weekly. ne has
learned that during his two years absence In
Europe she instructed her agent who was buy
ing treasures for the adornment of the house to
consult his tastes in all matters in order that he
might be the better pleased when he came into
possession Every day he finds stored away in
the commodious closets of the villa surprises
the shape of costly embroideres or bric-a brac,
of whose existence nobody seems to have
known. The whole story is almost chapter
from the ARABIAN Nights"
VERY few women distinguished in literature
have found fame and fortune early in life
George Eliot was thirty eight when her first
story was published; Mrs Stoves Uncle Toms
Cabin appeared in the thirty ninth year of her
life; Elizabeth Browning was married at thirty
seven, and all her best work was done after that
event; All. H." became famous after she was
forty years of age. and Louise Acotts first really
good story was not published until she was
thirty-seven. Very few, indeed, have sprung
into the ''seat of the immortals," and all have
had long years of discouragemen. and hard
work. Nine parts perseverance and study and
one part genius is the average with them.
NEW story of Bob Toombs is afioat. At a
| dinner party he waited for pause in the dis
! cussion. and then, addressing Lord Egn in
| stentorian tones, remarked apropos of the en-
| crossing topic: "Yes, my lord, We are about to
! relume the torch of liberty upon the altar of
/ liberty" Upon which our hostess. with win
| ming smile said: 'Oh, | am so glad to hear you
| say that again. Senator; for told my husband
| that you had made of exactly the same ex-
| preston to me yesterday and he said you would
! not have talked such nonsense to ANYBODY but a
| woman" The shouts of laughter which greeted
! this sally abashed even the worthy Senator.
| which was the more gratifying to those present.
| as to do so achievement not easily ac-
| complished.